Bath
בַּתStrong’s H1325bat
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bat is the Aramaic word usually translated “baths”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.”
Meaning
- Bath, a unit of liquid measure, about 40 litres, equal to dry measure ephah
- (TWOT) a liquid measure, about 22 litres
How it's translated
- baths 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
בַּת bat · bath
1) bath, a unit of liquid measure, about 40 litres, equal to dry measure ephah 2) (TWOT) a liquid measure, about 22 litres
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ATH, noun
- A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in.
- A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance.
- A house for bathing.
- A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.